+1, I'm very curious too, but his seat's more than still warm: though he opens his blog post by referring to his leaving in the present tense, Jeff's next sentence explains that he's not officially gone until the end of the month.
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Jeremy BanksFeb 7 '12 at 9:16

As an erstwhile noisy [useless-feature]-requestor I must hereby tell Jeff a public "I sincerely apologize" for my naive suggestions, one of which I personally found out is a fiasco(pushing asking-users to choose a best answer, because I just asked a Q that got an annoying "PICK ME Z BEST ANSWER" as a comment. ) I would pay for a helicopter to drop-down cargo boxes of Krispy Kreem unto you Jeff, well I mean.. like near you of course. AAAND that's all for my internets today, my quotas full, back 2 school.
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AdelFeb 7 '12 at 15:52

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Because we massively overworked Jeff as a matter of corporate policy, and because he wore big clown-like shoes, it will take at least three people to fill his shoes completely.

Josh "Shog9" Heyer, Stack Overflow user #811, has overall responsibility for Q&A quality and will be the public face of the company on metas. As such he's the closest we have to an "ultimate authority". Since he's usually right, I recommend listening to him.

Jarrod Dixon, Stack Overflow user #3, is now the lead of the core development team which works on the code that runs the Stack Exchange Q&A platform.

Jarrod reports to David Fullerton, the VP of Engineering for Stack Exchange. David's other responsibilities include the Careers 2.0 platform and the System Administration team (led by Kyle Brandt).

@Farry - Joel is CEO not CTO. He's number 4 not number 2 or 3 - who cares?
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JonHFeb 7 '12 at 16:44

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mine was the fourth account they made in the database. It's an IDENTITY column, and Jarrod and Geoff were both writing code before I got my account.
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Joel Spolsky♦Feb 7 '12 at 17:38

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Now see, if you had used GUIDs right at the beginning then people wouldn't complain about user ordering issues. Nothing a little jQuery can't fix, though. But everyone should keep in mind that the community comes first as user #0.
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Adam DavisFeb 7 '12 at 18:15

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"even if you're sometimes idiots and we have to overrule you." Dude, you totally have that the other way around.
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casperOneFeb 7 '12 at 21:01